What are some nation-states in the middle east?

What Jewish group does not ethnically originiate from the Middle East?

• So mainly there are the: Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardic Jews, Mizrachi Jews, Yemenite Jews, Karaite Jews, Samaritans... With the Askenazi Jews being picked on the most with the claim that they're Europeans, "Khazars", whatever else...but not a Semetic people. Genetic studies on Ashkenazi Jews in Europe: Efforts to identify the origins of Ashkenazi Jews through DNA analysis began in the 1990s. Like most DNA studies of human migration patterns, these studies have focused on two segments of the human genome, the Y chromosome (passed on only by males), and the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA, passed on only by females). Male lineages: Y chromosomal DNA A study of haplotypes of the Y chromosome, published in 2000, addressed the paternal origins of Ashkenazi Jews. Hammer et al.[16] found that the Y chromosome of some Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews contained mutations that are also common among Middle Eastern peoples, but uncommon in the general European population. This suggested that the male ancestors of the Ashkenazi Jews could be traced mostly to the Middle East. The proportion of male genetic admixture in Ashkenazi Jews amounts to less than 0.5% per generation over an estimated 80 generations, with "relatively minor contribution of European Y chromosomes to the Ashkenazim," This supported the finding that "Diaspora Jews from Europe, Northwest Africa, and the Near East resemble each other more closely than they resemble their non-Jewish neighbors." Female lineages: Mitochondrial DNA However, a 2006 study by Behar et al.,[1] based on high-resolution analysis of haplogroup K(mtDNA), suggested that about 40% of the current Ashkenazi population is descended matrilineally from just four women, or "founder lineages", that were "likely from a Hebrew/Levantine mtDNA pool" originating in the Middle East in the first and second centuries CE. In 2004, the largest study made on Ashkenazi Jews, Behar et al (2004) gives a percentage of European contribution of 5% (excluding Jews from Netherlands). In addition, Behar et al. have suggested that the rest of Ashkenazi mtDNA is originated from ~150 women, most of those likely of Middle Eastern origin. Two studies by Nebel et al. in 2001 and 2005, based on Y chromosome polymorphic markers, showed that Ashkenazi Jews are more closely related to other Jewish and Middle Eastern groups than to their host populations in Europe. Faerman (2008) states that "External low-level gene flow of possible Eastern European origin has been shown in Ashkenazim but no evidence of a hypothetical Khazars’ contribution to the Ashkenazi gene pool has ever been found." Despite the Ashkenazi Jews' long residence in Europe, their Y signature has remained distinct from that of non-Jewish Europeans. On the assumption that there have been 80 generations since the founding of the Ashkenazi population, Dr. Hammer and colleagues calculate that the rate of genetic admixture with Europeans has been less than half a percent (0.5%) per generation. Jewish law tracing back almost 2,000 years states that Jewish affiliation is determined by maternal ancestry, so the Y chromosome study addresses the question of how much non-Jewish men may have contributed to Jewish genetic diversity. Dr. Hammer was surprised to find how little that contribution was. ...... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Jews http://foundationstone.com.au/FoundationStone.html?./HtmlSupport/WebPage/semiticGenetics.html What are other Jewish groups are said to not be Semetic or with Middle Eastern ancestry ?

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  You totally forgot the Ethiopian Jews. What about the age old Jews in India? Dribble